Android display Splash-Screen while loading

Question

I have an Android App, which shows a \"Splash Screen\" for 3 seconds. After that, the MainActivity gets loaded.

Unfortunately the MainActivity takes additional ~4 se

Answer 1

If there are no specific constraints about the time the splash screen should be shown, you could use the AsyncTask in the following way:

public class SplashScreen extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_startup);
        startHeavyProcessing();

    }

    private void startHeavyProcessing(){
       new LongOperation().execute("");
    }

    private class LongOperation extends AsyncTask {

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            //some heavy processing resulting in a Data String
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    Thread.interrupted();
                }
            }
            return "whatever result you have";
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            Intent i = new Intent(SplashScreen.this, MainActivity.class);
            i.putExtra("data", result);
            startActivity(i);
            finish();
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {}

        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {}
    }
}

If the resulting data if of another nature than a String you could put a Parcelable Object as an extra to your activity. In onCreate you can retrieve the data with:

getIntent().getExtras.getString('data');